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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several justices on the U.S. Supreme Court voiced concern on Monday about letting U.S. copyright holders block the resale inside the country of products they make elsewhere, in one of the court's biggest copyright cases in years. The case, likely to result in a close decision, could profoundly affect the roughly $63 billion gray market, in which third parties import brand-name goods protected by trademark or copyright into the United States. It also gives the court a chance to delineate copyright protections at the very time that products and information from international sources become much more freely available, whether in physical form or downloaded or otherwise available online.

A judge is about to issue a key decision in the battle over the rights to Superman, but the long legal tangle over the Man of Steel has created such a lore of its own that it often seems to trump the comicbook character's own mythology. The rags-to-missed-riches story of co-creators Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster, and how they sold their creation in 1938 for $130, only to see it become a franchise that reaped perhaps billions, is legendary. What's striking is the extent to which it pervades even the legal briefing as both sides makes their case to U.S. District Judge Otis Wright.

NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Authors suing Google over the digitization of their books have asked a New York court to order the Internet company to pay $750 for each book it copied, distributed or displayed. The authors' filing was lodged in federal court in the Southern District of New York last month, but was only made public on Friday. In the filing, the Authors Guild, whose president is novelist-lawyer Scott Thurow, urged the court to rule that Google's digitization project does not constitute "fair use" under copyright law. Litigation over Google's digitization project began seven years ago after Google began copying millions of books thanks to an agreement with libraries, including those at Harvard University, Oxford University and Stanford University.

Dish Network Corp.has lost its bid to have all of a bitter dispute against the four major broadcast networks over its new ad-skipping feature heard in a New York court, rather than in Los Angeles as the networks preferred. With billions of dollars of advertising revenue at stake in the case, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan granted a motion by News Corp.'s Fox network to dismiss Dish's copyright and contract claims in her court over the "Auto Hop" feature, saying they should be addressed in Los Angeles.

* Victory for activists who held protests across Europe * Lawmakers warn of new backlash against EU copyright reform * Business groups say EU weaker in trade talks without deal (Adds quote from European Parliament president) By Claire Davenport BRUSSELS, July 4 (Reuters) - The European Parliament rejected a global agreement against copyright theft on Wednesday, handing a victory to protesters who say the legislation would punish people for sharing films and music online.